XMPP not working right...

Hey guys, I've been running the Zimbra Open Source version for 3 months strong and in recent days a friend and I have been messing about with Zimbra's XMPP IM chat. We were able to connect pidgin, spark and a few other chat clients to the IM service that Zimbra provides using the web interface, however it lacked VOIP.

So we then installed Openfire which has an equvalient chat server like Zimbra's that had plugin support so we could add VOIP and other stuff to the chat. However we were unsucessful in getting VOIP to actually work, the calls would never go through. So I then uninstalled Openfire with CentOS's Add and Remove program manager forgetting I still had it running while doing that. After that I greped for all possible Openfire files and entries and deleted them all.

However trying to connect again to Zimbra's chat service with Spark or any other chat program that worked fine in the beginning now fails, only the Zimbra Web chat works.

One thing to note is that during the install of Openfire, Zimbra's XMPP server was set to FALSE so it wasnt hogging the port. I set it to true again but it didnt make a difference.

I also looked at the mailbox log after attempting to login with spark to Zimbra and I can see that XMPP is talking to Spark but Spark continues to fail at logging in any of the Zimbra accounts.

I hope this warrants a response from someone that knows how to trouble shoot this a bit more....

i'm the friend

let me clarify a bit here about what's going on. The Zimbra xmpp server in the web page works just fine, no problems. The trouble comes in only when authenticating accounts with an external client. Openfire is completely uninstalled but the zimbra xmpp server was still somehow authenticating accounts against that, so in a moderately stupid move we deleted the account database that Openfire was running (it was not linked with the Zimbra LDAP.) Now, the external clients are still trying to authenticate against the old Openfire database which no longer exits, the question is how do we get the Zimbra xmpp server to go back to authenticating against its own accounts?

Hopefully someone can figure this out or I'm going to pull out all my hair,
thanks

let me clarify a bit here about what's going on. The Zimbra xmpp server in the web page works just fine, no problems. The trouble comes in only when authenticating accounts with an external client. Openfire is completely uninstalled but the zimbra xmpp server was still somehow authenticating accounts against that, so in a moderately stupid move we deleted the account database that Openfire was running (it was not linked with the Zimbra LDAP.) Now, the external clients are still trying to authenticate against the old Openfire database which no longer exits, the question is how do we get the Zimbra xmpp server to go back to authenticating against its own accounts?

Hopefully someone can figure this out or I'm going to pull out all my hair,
thanks

To clarify a bit more or to put it in layman's terms, Zimbra is seeing the external chat client login requests but it's not showing them the accounts they want, making the external chat client think you entered an invalid set of details.